Other events
Festival Mata Air 2008
Festival Mata Air 2008, an annual cultural and environmental activism event Organised by Tanam untuk Kehidupan (TUK), was held in Salatiga from 24 – 26 October 2008.
This year’s program was located in the urban neighbourhood of Kalimangkak to promote Salatiga regionally, nationally and internationally as an innovative and creative city with an environmental conscience.
The program included contemporary wayang kulitgroup Wayang Kampung Sebelah, Jakarta percussion groupKuno-Kini, feisty Malang rapper MC Nova, and well known Indonesian artists Sawung Jabo & Franky, as well as workshops, performances, and exhibitions throughout the weekend.
With about twenty Australian cultural figures involved, Festival Mata Air was also an important part of the ongoing Australian-Indonesian cultural dialogue.
The Australian artists’ residencies and participation in Festival Mata Air 2008 is supported by the Australia-Indonesia Institute, an Australian Government initiative.
Australian artists enjoyed folk dance with local community during Festival Mata Air 2008, an annual cultural and environmental activism event organised by Tanam untuk Kehidupan (TUK) in Salatiga from 24 – 26 October 2008.
International artists and local communities working together during Festival Mata Air 2008, an annual cultural and environmental activism event organised by Tanam untuk Kehidupan (TUK) in Salatiga from 24 – 26 October 2008.
International artists playing with children in Salatiga during Festival Mata Air 2008, an annual cultural and environmental activism event organised by Tanam untuk Kehidupan (TUK) in Salatiga from 24 – 26 October 2008.
Tony Yap Company collaboration – Palimpsest
IN2OZ is pleased to promote the work of innovative Australian choreographer and dancer, Tony Yap, whose company will be performing in Indonesia in November 2008.
The creative development
Tony Yap Company comprising choreographer/dancer Tony Yap, composers/musicians Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, and visual artist Naomi Ota spent several weeks in Munmak, South Korea in December 2008 working on a creative development with the Hooyong Performing Arts Centre Resident Company, Theatre Nottle and Indonesian dancer Agung Gunawan of Paguyuban Seni Surya Kencana. The project is directed by Young-Oh Won, with playwright Hyun Woo Kim and performers Dae-Gun Kim, So-Young Lim and Jee-Hyun Lee.
Performances in Indonesia
Palimpsest will be performed at Taman sari – Water palace, Kraton (Royal Palace) Jogyakarta in Indonesia 13-14 November 2008 and at ARKO Theatre in Seoul, Korea 13-14 December 2008. The Tony Yap Company will be collaborating with Agung Gunawan and artists from Paguyuban Seni Surya Kencana for the performance in Indonesia.
The production at the Kraton Palace is the core of the Indonesian project. Agung Gunawan and artists and production staff from Paguyuban Seni Surya Kencana are hosting both a creative engagement for the international guests with the soul of Javanese traditional dance and voice works (Agung Gunawan and Ibu Kadar) for a distillation of traditional approaches into a contemporary physical theatre production.
The specific site at the Palace is a central part of the layering of influences for the production – the incredibly rich cultural heritage offering a great resource for the visiting Tony Yap Company.
The production itself will benefit from a local team experienced in staging traditional and contemporary productions in Jogjakarta, providing further insights for the international guests as the creative process in this site-specific work is intimately tied to the local material context.
The Tony Yap Company
All participating artists in the Tony Yap Company have strong international profiles in collaborative, multi-modal projects and their particular artform specialties. Tony Yap is the current Australia Council Dance Fellow, and has a long and distinguished history within Australian contemporary dance. Naomi Ota is an internationally-represented sculptor who most recently exhibited at the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey are also award-winning, high-profile artists within Melbourne and beyond.
Tony Yap Company is proudly supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria, Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Victoria.
Taman Sari - Water Palace, Kraton (Royal Palace) Jogyakarta
Asialink's Eastern Indonesia – Northern Territory Partnership program
2008 saw the culmination of Asialink's pilot Eastern Indonesia – Northern Territory Partnership program. Building on the success of the Northern Territory's Indigenous arts sector, the program brings together arts practitioners working with and in remote communities to develop strategies encouraging the transmission of traditional culture to future generations.
The program culminated in the highly successful opening of
the Ta Teut Amarasi Awakening exhibition on 13 November
at the East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Provincial Museum in
Kupang. This collection of contemporary textiles and prints
based on the cultural traditions of Amarasi, West Timor, was
previously exhibited to wide acclaim at the Darwin Festival in
August 2008 and in Melbourne. Funded through the Ford
Foundation, Jakarta, and Arts Northern Territory, the
partnership supported the introduction of new printmaking and
paper techniques by Darwin artists to a traditional artistic
community in Baun, West Timor, whose work formed the basis of
the Awakening exhibition.
